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The Florida Department of Health, Arthritis Prevention and Education Program has provided the following information
and reports so the public and healthcare experts can access state and county data related to arthritis.
In addition, the information and reports on this webpage are intended as a guide for healthcare experts and community organizations
to recruit individuals 18 years of age and older to attend self-management and physical activity programs.
The Arthritis Prevention and Education Program provides technical assistance for various self-management and physical
activity programs. Visit the Arthritis Self-Management and Physical Activity Programs webpage to learn more about these programs.
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The BRFSS is a system of telephone health
surveys that collects information on health risk behaviors, preventive health practices, and healthcare access primarily
related to chronic diseases and injury. The BRFSS is the primary tool for collecting data on arthritis
in Florida. For more information on the BRFSS,
visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) BRFSS website
or the Florida Department of Health’s BRFSS website.
The chronic disease indicators are a set of 97 health conditions or risk factors (indicators), which are divided into eight groups. Each of the eight groups include
multiple indicators. Health experts developed the chronic disease indicators to help with consistent reporting of chronic disease data.
This data is important to public health and can be compared by states, territories, or large metropolitan areas.
For more information on chronic disease indicators, visit the
CDC's Chronic Disease Indicators website.
To view the eight groups, which include the 97 chronic disease indicators, view the
CDC's Indicator Definitions website.
Eight arthritis chronic disease indicators were used to collect arthritis data for 2007. The
2007 Arthritis Chronic Disease Indicators-(PDF* 5 KB) lists the eight arthritis chronic disease indicators. The reports on the
Florida Department of Health’s BRFSS Reports website include arthritis data collected for Florida.
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CHARTS provides access to more than 800 public
health indicators at the county and state levels. CHARTS
has mortality data, morbidity data, population estimates, socioeconomic status indicators, and county profile data.
The public and healthcare experts can access
CHARTS' Interactive Community Maps to view population characteristics such as median household income and percent of population
25 years and over with no high school diploma. The Interactive Community Maps use population characteristic data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The data found in the
CHARTS' Interactive
Community Maps are grouped by census tract. Census tracts are small, relatively permanent subdivisions of a county. Their
boundaries normally follow visible features, such as main roads or highways, and are fully contained within a county. ZIP codes,
on the other hand, are assigned by the U.S. Postal Service to a section of a street, a collection of streets, an establishment, structure,
or group of post office boxes, for the delivery of mail. ZIP codes often change frequently and,
therefore, do not accurately depict the population for the purpose of presenting data. These definitions were taken from the
U.S. Census Bureau’s website.
For help on navigating the CHARTS website, view the
Training and Resources website.
For a more detailed guide on how to use the
CHARTS'
Interactive Community Maps, view the Quick reference for the Florida CHARTS web mapping application.
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The CDC provides national and state-specific arthritis data, which can be found at the
CDC Arthritis Data and Statistics website.
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*Please Note: The reports and other documents on this webpage are in Portable Document Format (PDF). You may need
Adobe Acrobat Reader
to view or print them.
